Exeter, UK: Societas, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. "In the summer of 2020, there was an eruption of violence directed towards historical monuments across Europe and North America. Statues were torn down while police watched. Prominent public figures, politicians and even museum directors cheered on the destruction. Supporters claimed it was payback for slavery; critics said it was neo-Marxist activism or sheer vandalism. Can we place the 2020 events in a...... More

Blue Creek, OH: Bloody Twin Press, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. "In the closed dark/ of the lodge I hear/ the rocks sing/ and sing again as/ water is poured, feel/ the spirits of rock/ and water searing,/ cleansing./ I pray in/ gratefulness./ This is the only peace/ there is." ("Sweat") A chapbook of poems by Gogisgi/Carroll Arnett (1927-1997), a Native American poet & professor of Cherokee-French ancestry who at one..... More

New York, NY: Coronet Communications, Inc., 1971. First Printing. Softcover. The third number of the exemplary series of commodified radicalism in the wake of the 1960s, as it continued to sour from peaceful flower-power into anger. With articles & poetry including a lengthy interview of anarchist-Yippie firebrand Abbie Hoffman conducted by editor Dotson Rader & co., illustrated with three photographs; two early poems by since-acclaimed writer & journalist Andre Codrescu..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. Signed with drawing by Robert Bly. "In 1966 Robert Bly and David Ray founded AMERICAN WRITERS AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR, which organized the first series of "read-ins" against the war, in which most of the poets in the country took part. Last spring he read this long poem, then unfinished, at various halls across the country, in which he and..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Oasis Publications, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. "(Breyten) Breytenbach has no ultimate truth to offer, no universal symbol to communicate. He has not prepared an aesthetic banquet for the senses, and there is no rhetoric in his visionary toasts. He shows unforgettably the plain facts of his panic paradise: Experiences of convulsion and passion, which he lived as a proud victim of his sensitivity, in a 'state of..... More

New York, NY: Berkeley Publishing Corporation, 1963. First Printing. Softcover. An early anthology of "the most controversial writing Today"(from front cover) edited by Terry Southern, Richard Seaver & Alexander Trocchi. Includes an essay on William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch by E. S. Seldon (originally published in a 1957 issue of Evergreen Review several years before its full publication), followed by a passage from WSB's breakthrough work. Also excerpts of works..... More

New York, NY: Serpent's Tail / High Risk Books, 1995. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. (Shoaf 88a. pg. 63; Schottlaender A66b.). "Bulldozers are destroying the rain forests, the cowering lemurs and flying foxes, the singing Kloss's gibbons, which produce the most beautiful and variegated music of any land animal, and the gliding colugo lemurs, which are helpless on the ground. All going, to make way for more and more devalued human..... More

Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1987. First American Edition. Softcover. Signed by Ciaran Carson to Thomas Rain Crowe. "The Irish for No represents (Ciaran) Carson's return to poetry after a decade's devotion to the making and maintenance of traditional music. In (Carson's first collection) The New Estate he writes of Belfast, "The city is a map of the city." In The Irish for No, Carson becomes the cartographer of..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. The second number of the landmark first series of the literary journal published by iconic Beat poet & publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights imprint. Featuring a critical essay on William S. Burroughs' three works following the first publication of Naked Lunch by Alan Ansen, WSB's good friend & collaborator; English translations of works by Dada-Surrealist French writers Guillaume Apollinaire &..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Cadmus Editions, 1980. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tom Clark. "I do not believe the State, a deity of illusion, least of all against its own hallucinations. The CIA giveth, the CIA taketh away. But the powers that be would be well advised to deport (Chogyam) Trungpa to his native land, where after due reprocessing he might be given a hoe and sent to a commune..... More

Miami, FL: Press of the Black Flag, 1970. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Robert Creeley. A broadside (7"x11&1/2") with the short, fierce title poem by Robert Creeley (1926-2005), an affiliate of the Beats, Black Mountain College & in the pantheon of American poets. With his hand-signature above his printed name. No reference to publisher or limitation, but our research indicates this was printed by the Press of the Black..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: Third Mind Books, 20185. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed, Lettered, Limited (1/26) "The seismic cultural impact of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs was followed by a series of aftershocks. 'Starting from San Francisco' measures a vital instance of this natural process, the circle of aspiring poets around poet and publisher Thomas Rain Crowe and the resurrected Beatitude magazine in the 1970s who used a small-press explosion to sustain and..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press/Evergreen Books, 1958. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "In the fall of 1953, when the atmosphere of conformity seemed thickest in America, a group of writers began publishing DISSENT, a quarterly journal of democratic-socialist opinion. VOICES OF DISSENT contains some of the best and most provocative articles which appeared in the quarterly during its first five years."(from back cover) This is the first softcover edition, large format..... More